Storyboard:

Title:

1900 - Welcome to the 20th century: World Exhibition in Paris

Rights-Managed,
Editorial

Location and time:

France, Paris, 01-01-1900

Description:

On Monday, January 1st, the 20th century begins. Cancan rhythms dominate the avantgarde capital, Paris. There are terrible beliefs all over the world. Rivalry among the great powers drives Europe to despair.

Sound Bite and conversation:

Bourgeois, Maurice

(born in 1895) , speaking French: - "This was new at this time. Speed."

Bourgeois, Maurice

(born in 1895) , speaking French: - "It was like an alliance among the nations. From that time on they wanted to enjoy the bright side of life."

Vosswinkel, Marie

(born in 1896) , speaking English: - "People who came here felt that now nothing would be the same. They felt free."

Thomas, Ursula

(was born in 1897, Berlin) , speaking German: - "We had to sleep, it’s true. They awoke us only in the evening. We were given cookies, raspberry syrup and things like that, and we were able to stay awake till midnight as we had been sleeping before."

Thomas, Ursula

(was born in 1897, Berlin) , speaking German: - "We weren’t allowed even to touch the sparklers. Our mothers or fathers held them. This was something in our age. As we weren’t allowed to hold them, our parents did it."

Thomas, Ursula

(was born in 1897, Berlin) , speaking German: - "At Ursel’s house, there was a phone. My father was a bookseller; we were connected to the shop. There was light, even heating and we had everything."

Vosswinkel, Marie

(born in 1896) , speaking English: - "My father was a weaver in a factory. He was tired of his life, so he went with us to America."

Vosswinkel, Marie

(born in 1896) , speaking English: - "My father was a weaver in a factory. He was tired of his life, so he went with us to America."

Thomas, Ursula

(was born in 1897, Berlin) , speaking German: - "We were patriots. We had an emperor, William II., King of Prussia and we were proud Prussians."

Bourgeois, Maurice

(born in 1895) , speaking French: - "Air travel was very exciting. From above you could see the changes happening on Earth. I can remember it exactly. Yes."

Thomas, Ursula

(was born in 1897, Berlin) , speaking German: - "Than we stopped in Staglitz. Hmm, our street was in a brown-stone district."

Bourgeois, Maurice

(born in 1895) , speaking French: - "I definitely have to live a few more years to see what people will do in the next century."